Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Chad Alan Hightower, a longtime officer of the Wise County Sheriff’s office, was arrested for taking nude pictures of registered citizens when they came in to do their Sex offender registration. We are familiar with the story from a couple months ago, where Police tried to take images of a teenager’s erect penis in order to prosecute him for sexting

Source TOPEKA, Kansas — The attorney for a convicted child molester on Thursday challenged the constitutionality of the Kansas offender registry before the state’s highest court, arguing social media has made the Internet the new town square for public shaming. Attorney Christopher Joseph urged the Kansas Supreme Court to uphold a decision by Shawnee County Judge Larry Hendricks that removed

Brevard County has an ordinance that not only precludes the residency of sex offenders, but where they can be physically present. Seriously! The Brevard County Ordinance states, “No sexual offender or sexual predator shall enter into or remain within the 1,000-foot buffer zone surrounding any school, daycare center, park or playground…” The only exceptions are doctors appointments, lawyers appointments, licensed

Brevard County Public Schools recently issues the following statement: “Sex offender check enhances safety in Florida schools… Administrators at Brevard County Public Schools in Florida have enhanced security this school year with a new system that automatically runs sexual predator checks on all visitors and streamlines the process for volunteers.” Has Brevard had issues in the past with Sex Offenders

The Florida Action Committee has sent two letters to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) within the past couple of months, asking them to notify us of recent changes to the registration requirements being imposed on registered citizens. The text of the letters can be found here and here. To date the FDLE has not replied. This past legislative

The  Kansas Supreme Court is set to rule on the retroactive lengthening of the time one has to register under their state’s registry. Similar to what Florida has done, the State of Kansas in 2011, decided to extend the length of time an individual had to register and made that punishment retroactive, effectively moving the finish line as the Plaintiff